Yahoo might be facing a showdown with investors at its annual meeting in August, but the company is continuing to roll out new initiatives designed to promulgate its technologies into businesses and organizations—and get their name in front of Internet-users eyeballs.
First up, Yahoo has announced a new open Web services platform dubbed Yahoo Search BOSS—Build Your Own Search Service—that will let third parties significant access to Yahoo’s search technology, including the ability to build custom search engines with their own unique presentations and re-rank search results. BOSS users won’t have any restriction on the number of queries they can fire off, and they cam mix results fro Web sites, news, images, and other data sources indexed by Yahoo.
